What Is Your Educational Goal
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@Joy said:
Good to read, I was considering on converting my experience into Degree of IT Major in Management.
(There was a university offered like that) As here in the Philippines most companies value the university graduate. Opps before that, I still have 1 year and half to decide.University is free in Germany!
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@Dashrender said:
Same here, though only through high school. Completely skipped working in fast food, or really food of any kind (I did work on a farm for two years).
Farm, fast food, "high end" food washing dishes, retirement home food service, pizza places, grocery store, hotels...
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
Same here, though only through high school. Completely skipped working in fast food, or really food of any kind (I did work on a farm for two years).
Farm, fast food, "high end" food washing dishes, retirement home food service, pizza places, grocery store, hotels...
Yeah, You've had more jobs in 1-2 years than I've had in a life time.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Joy said:
Good to read, I was considering on converting my experience into Degree of IT Major in Management.
(There was a university offered like that) As here in the Philippines most companies value the university graduate. Opps before that, I still have 1 year and half to decide.University is free in Germany!
Lols I wish they're not too far from me, or must be great if I will have an host family.
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@Dashrender said:
@coliver said:
@scottalanmiller said:
And I have been a cashier, so.....
As have I. Worked in a hardware store throughout high school and college. It was a great way to earn money but I couldn't imagine doing that for the rest of my life.
Same here, though only through high school. Completely skipped working in fast food, or really food of any kind (I did work on a farm for two years).
I worked as clean-up crew in a diner for ~6 months... never again.
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@Dashrender said:
Yeah, You've had more jobs in 1-2 years than I've had in a life time.
That was like six years. That was all through high school and the college years.
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@Joy said:
Lols I wish they're not too far from me, or must be great if I will have an host family.
They might provide housing. You should look into it.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
Yeah, You've had more jobs in 1-2 years than I've had in a life time.
That was like six years. That was all through high school and the college years.
I was guessing so.. but that doesn't make my statement wrong. lol
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I had over 40 jobs in IT in my first several years in IT. I was a contractor so moved from job to job rapidly.
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@scottalanmiller said:
I had over 40 jobs in IT in my first several years in IT. I was a contractor so moved from job to job rapidly.
Yeah, contracting - I personally consider it a bit different, that's really kinda lumped all under either self employment or you working for a consulting firm... at least that's how I view it.
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@Dashrender said:
@scottalanmiller said:
I had over 40 jobs in IT in my first several years in IT. I was a contractor so moved from job to job rapidly.
Yeah, contracting - I personally consider it a bit different, that's really kinda lumped all under either self employment or you working for a consulting firm... at least that's how I view it.
Except generally neither is true. You are certainly not self employed and rarely do you work for a consulting firm. Those are misconceptions of the industry. You literally move from one employer to another very rapidly. Being a full time employee of one company and/or being self employed are completely different things.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Except generally neither is true. You are certainly not self employed and rarely do you work for a consulting firm.
I would disagree with that because my personal experience is that I know many people that work IT consulting via agencies. Not doing it themselves. Prior to getting social via SW and ML, I knew exactly 2 people that did it themselves as you did.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
@scottalanmiller said:
I had over 40 jobs in IT in my first several years in IT. I was a contractor so moved from job to job rapidly.
Yeah, contracting - I personally consider it a bit different, that's really kinda lumped all under either self employment or you working for a consulting firm... at least that's how I view it.
Except generally neither is true. You are certainly not self employed and rarely do you work for a consulting firm. Those are misconceptions of the industry. You literally move from one employer to another very rapidly. Being a full time employee of one company and/or being self employed are completely different things.
Really? That seems like a lot of headache for them the hire you on for a 2-6 month contract as a full time employee, then term you at the end.
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@JaredBusch said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Except generally neither is true. You are certainly not self employed and rarely do you work for a consulting firm.
I would disagree with that because my personal experience is that I know many people that work IT consulting via agencies. Not doing it themselves. Prior to getting social via SW and ML, I knew exactly 2 people that did it themselves as you did.
via agencies? where did their paycheck come from? directly from the companies they worked for, or from the agency?
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@Dashrender said:
Really? That seems like a lot of headache for them the hire you on for a 2-6 month contract as a full time employee, then term you at the end.
That is how contract work works. A lot of businesses do it.
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@Dashrender said:
via agencies? where did their paycheck come from? directly from the companies they worked for, or from the agency?
I've seen it both ways. So technically the ones getting paid via the agency was an employee of the agency, yes. Most got paid from the company they worked at.
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@JaredBusch said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Except generally neither is true. You are certainly not self employed and rarely do you work for a consulting firm.
I would disagree with that because my personal experience is that I know many people that work IT consulting via agencies. Not doing it themselves. Prior to getting social via SW and ML, I knew exactly 2 people that did it themselves as you did.
It was through agencies, but never the same agency twice in a row. Almost always through agencies. Except when I would work for Dell.
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@Dashrender said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
@scottalanmiller said:
I had over 40 jobs in IT in my first several years in IT. I was a contractor so moved from job to job rapidly.
Yeah, contracting - I personally consider it a bit different, that's really kinda lumped all under either self employment or you working for a consulting firm... at least that's how I view it.
Except generally neither is true. You are certainly not self employed and rarely do you work for a consulting firm. Those are misconceptions of the industry. You literally move from one employer to another very rapidly. Being a full time employee of one company and/or being self employed are completely different things.
Really? That seems like a lot of headache for them the hire you on for a 2-6 month contract as a full time employee, then term you at the end.
2-6 months? Ha. More like days.
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@Dashrender said:
@JaredBusch said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Except generally neither is true. You are certainly not self employed and rarely do you work for a consulting firm.
I would disagree with that because my personal experience is that I know many people that work IT consulting via agencies. Not doing it themselves. Prior to getting social via SW and ML, I knew exactly 2 people that did it themselves as you did.
via agencies? where did their paycheck come from? directly from the companies they worked for, or from the agency?
Agencies of course. That's why agencies are used, they handle the payroll.
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Where you doing the advisement role that you do for many of us here? or something else for these consulting gigs?
